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The Readers' Service will give you 

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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



April , 1909 



Water, Always Fresh 



A LONG with the great necessity and conve- 

 nience of running water in a country 

 home, goes the equally important necessity 

 that the supply furnished be pure and fresh. 

 From a sanitary standpoint the importance of 

 this cannot be overestimated : it means the 

 difference between sickness and health. Fresh 

 water can only be had with an easily regulated 

 source of supply. With a wind-mill the quan- 

 tity of water in a tank cannot be regulated. 

 On windy days the tank will get so full, that, 

 for days or weeks, only stagnant water runs 

 from the faucets. Stagnant water collects 



germs, becomes brackish, and has an odor 

 which discourages its use: it is really danger- 

 ous. On the other hand, with a HOT-AIR 

 PUMP you can pump a supply when you want 

 it — as much or as little as may be needed, 

 thus your supply is fresh every day. Water 

 is something which comes into such frequent 

 use for so many purposes, that its quality nat- 

 urally requires safeguarding just as carefully 

 as that of your food supply; if it be kept fresh 

 and pure, you are, in a large degree, insured 

 against disease. The Hot-Air Pump, once in- 

 stalled, lasts a lifetime. 



He sure that the name TlEECO-R FIFR or "REECO-P H I P N N II N appears upon the pump you 

 purchase. This name wwn lHUL.ll «ungit.LlllwwwUI1 protects you against worth- 



less imitations. When so situated that you cannot personally inspect the pump before ordering, 

 write to our nearest office (see list below) for tile name of a reputable dealer in your locality, who 

 will sell you only the genuine pump. Over 40,000 are in use throughout the world to-day. 



Write for Catalogue U 1 and ask for reduced price-list. 

 Also Builders of the New " REECO" Electric Pump 



Rider-Ericsson 

 Engine Co. 



35 Warren Street, New York 

 23a Franklin Street, Boston 



40 Dearborn Stieet, Chicago 



40 North 7th Street, Philadelphia 

 234 Craig Street West, Montreal, P. Q. 



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Hot-Air Pump 



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PLANTS FOR YE 

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OLD = FASHIONED 

 GARDEN 



A customer writes us as follows : 



" In these times when a man wishes to economize all along 

 the line your catalogue is indeed most satisfying. I have 

 received probably every catalogue issued this spring by the 

 large firms in the East and MiddleWest, and the prices presented 

 by your house run 3S% less on almost every item. As I have 

 purchased plants of you and your predecessor I know that the 

 stocks are equal in every instance to those sent out by the 

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 of necessity." 



T-^Pf'f > 'yit11/1 1 r are not on ly the correct 



± crcnniuir* thing t0 plant in your gar . 



den from an up-to-date standpoint, but they 

 cost less, require less attention, come up 

 annually without replanting, and improve year 

 after year, giving a succession of bloom from 

 Spring till frost. 



Buy from headquarters. We make them our specialty 

 and grow them by the acre. Also Flowering Shrubs, 

 Evergreens, Vines, etc. Ask for Catalogue. Estimate 

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PALISADES NURSERIES. SPARKILL, N. Y. 



Growing Exhibition Blooms of 

 Sweet Peas 



THE sweet pea is one of the easiest flowers to 

 grow. It adapts itself readily to varying 

 soils, bears blossoms of exquisite colors and delicious 

 fragrance, and in such profusion that the season of 

 bloom often extends over a period of three months. 



To grow sweet peas to any degree of perfection, 

 the selection of the seed is of the most vital import- 

 ance. Many have made either partial or complete 

 failure because they have been content to buy seed 

 of the cheap, unnamed sorts. Avoid the "mixed" 

 seed, buying instead a full range of colors of the best 

 standard named varieties. It is wiser to plant 

 fewer varieties of a range of harmonious colors, 

 and a greater quantity of each, than to multiply the 

 kinds and get but a few blossoms of each variety. 

 Under no circumstances should sweet peas be 

 planted twice in the same place in successive seasons; 

 the vines take something from the soil that no 

 amount of tillage or fertilization can replace for the 

 second season's crop of flowers — or else they give 

 a poison, as it were. 



Select a space in the sunniest part of the garden 

 entirely removed from the shade of trees and build- 

 ings. The nearness to trees often lessens both the 

 quality and quantity of the blooms, because the roots 

 of the trees will extend for many rods under the 

 trench and absorb all the available moisture and 

 food substances in the soil. 



Prepare the soil thus: By preference select a 

 rich, mellow garden soil, spaded and fined thor- 

 oughly to the depth of eighteen inches. Mix with 

 it well-rotted barnyard compost at the rate of a 

 wheelbarrow load to each six feet of trench. Hard- 

 wood ashes and finely ground bone meal — the 

 former rich in potash, the latter in phosphoric acid 

 — are valuable aids to the other fertilizer. But 

 they should be very sparingly used — one half 

 bushel of the ashes and two quarts of the bone meal 

 to each rod of trench — so as to avoid harmful 

 results to the tender roots in the early stages of 

 growth. Too much of any fertilizer is worse than 

 none at all. 



When all is ready place the necessary trellis or 

 other support before sowing the seed. The vines 

 need ample support to keep them erect, especially 

 during the blooming period. Drooping vines 

 inevitably result in crooked stems which greatly 

 mar the effect and utility of the blossoms. Brush 

 cut from a thicket of beech or birch, which has 

 grown in the open and has an abundance of small 

 twigs, makes an ideal support. Whatever material 

 is used, make it very rigid so that strong winds will 

 sway the vines but little. And build the trellis 

 sufficiently high that the vines may have support 

 during the entire season. Eight feet is none too 

 high if vigorous growth is made in a suitable climate. 



HOW TO PLANT 



When ready to plant make a V-shaped trench 

 six inches deep about a foot from each side of the 

 trellis, and in it sow the seed very thinly, carefully 

 covering with two inches of fine soil. The plants 

 should not be closer than three inches. The 

 remainder of the trench will be easily filled by cul- 

 tivation of the vines when they have grown a few 

 inches. If growing in several rows, allow two feet 

 space between the rows so that the roots will not 

 interfere. As soon as the tendrils appear, train 

 them so that when thev are tall enough thev will 



